Happy Easter!

Happy Easter All!

This year I contrived to give Padon a traditional Easter, as he will probably grow up with and become used to Easter and Easter Egg Hunts, and I think I did a pretty good job. More than once I felt a similar feeling to the panic attack I usually get around Halloween when attending costume parties and handing out candy, but I marched on, got the two pictures I really wanted, and let everything else take its course as can only happen when following an almost two year old around.

I bought Greg and Billy the most adorable little lambs for Easter and from the larger of the two made a pattern from the seam measurements. I then made Padon a little Easter rabbit from the fabric I already had and really felt excited about it. To me it looked like it was made of Easter basket grass and little green eggs, not to mention the tail of the bunny was made out of ribbon and so formed one of Padon's most favorite things, a tag. I did tell my self, as any smart Mother should, that there was a chance that this bunny would not inflict squeals of happiness and excitement and to be happy with the thought of making and giving this Easter bunny to Padon.

Thank goodness for this foresight because the site of the box of jelly beans sitting in the basket, between the bunny's legs, was far too wonderful to note the bunny behind it and a week later Padon still takes no notice of the rabbit. It's sitting on my dresser now where I like looking at it and will later try giving it to Padon again when it is completely forgotten. I was really just as pleased to see him so excited about the jelly beans and he horked them by the fistful.
When Jane and Jason arrived Jane started working on the most adorable cupcakes ever. Little chicks with black licorice eyes, Good & Plenty crest and toes, almond beak, and icing covered with coconut feathers. It was really wonderful, and when Padon finally got to eat his at home he really liked it. It seemed to bother him at first that it had a face, like he didn't understand why I gave him a toy in a bowl. But when I showed him that he could dig into it with his spoon and pick at the crest and toes he really went at it and ate everything in the bowl.

It was wonderful to see Billy again since I hadn't seen him since a few weeks after he was born and he had already grown a lot and developed more of his face. Very adorable it was hard to hold back while others held him, impatient to get in Auntie time. Padon had trouble with me holding Billy so we spent about 10 minutes, both of us holding him, until Padon got bored. He was so good about holding Billy although needed to be held back a little as he checked out his eyes and ears; there was a lot of head petting.
We had our (and I mean our) first Easter Egg hunt. My Mom had put together two baskets, each with 6 eggs, and Sarah and I went out in the rain (heck we live in Seattle, when is ever going to stop raining) and dropped the eggs into the green grass where Greg and Padon would be able to see them but still have to twirl around to see them all. I think Padon and Greg were mostly interested in the egg until we started opening some and Greg found a sweet little truck inside. Padon still loved the slippery egg and this distraction was perfect for Walter who kept plucking the found eggs out of the Padon's basket and laying them (yes laying, as he was walking around like a chicken, clucking) again somewhere else in the grass. This made the egg finding last three times longer which was awesome because Padon and Greg were having a good time being outside.

~Thank you to Jane for taking pictures during the hunt.~

One of Sarah's co-workers had given her a dozen real Easter Eggs filled with confetti. I had pictured the act of smashing them above each other's heads, like you were supposed to, would be a group thing, kind of like when we did the poppers at Christmas or celebrated midnight on New Years Eve but after Walter did one down my shirt and my Mom did one to my Dad at the table the game was on! I believe I got one down Walter's shirt too.
The Easter dinner and dessert was really good, the boys had a really great time, and it was nice to see family again.

In case you were thinking, Chloe, what the heck kind of pants-suit is it that Padon is wearing?! Jane gave Padon the outfit last year for his 1st birthday, the jacket size 12 mns and the pants 18mns. The jacket he had worn quite a few times and now that they fit the pants seemed perfect for Easter. Just on the spur I tried the jacket and what do-ya-know the jacket still fit too! So what if he looks like a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman!

"I don't want to look like a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman!!!!"